Tech project origin story explainerfrom @fdotinc

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So my friend, Vatsal, is building a self driving submarine that will send you messages with lasers. I don't know what any of that means. But don't worse. I do. One year ago, Vatsal and his friends were a bunch of nerds obsessed with optical problems. Built that telescope back tier. Built these speakers back here just for fun. This is my death beam. All to solve one massive issue, communication underwater. Underwater messaging is super important to rank things like oil spills, cut cables, subsea infrastructure, nuclear submarines, rescue missions, billion dollar industry. But right no, that's impossible because things like wifi and Bluetooth don't travel very far underwater. But you know what does? Lasers. You said that in the begin Better and green wavelengths travel furthest underwater out of anything in the electromagnetic spectrum. By controlling every aspect of the beam, we can encode messages onto things like its strength or its frequency. And then we can place these lasers in these giant eyeballs that can rotate to point at each other. Then we take those eyeballs and place them in autonomous submarines that will travel the ocean floor to finally relay your message. Wow. Using this, we can transmit terabytes of anything from three d data to live video streams. Which would finally solve underwater communication.